The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 15: what you’re looking at

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THE GIRL FROM HONG-KONG, 9 hy mosque comes the strident .voicewf a faithful moulajee reading the Koran to those who have gathered under the dome. The scene is stirring, and one can hardly. believe there has béen.suk an exodus from Bombay—with the plague in the cities and gaunt famine stalking through the country the. poor Hindoo, finding himself between the devil and the deep sea, usually remains where he is, and, as on numerous other occasions, depends on the English government to tide over the difficulty. They are, after all, followers of Mohammed, worship- ers .of Brabma and believers in ‘Buddha, fatalists at -heart, and' under such circumstances seem loath to fight against the inevifable—the will of Allah must be obeyed. | Terry: Donahue has been standing in the market this half-hour, his eyes roving hither and yon. A careful Lanaygale, of his glances would. reveal the fact that his attention seems to be taken up more with the features of the\passers-by than any marked peculiarity of their nationality or costume. Evidently Terry seeks a face which he has’ réason to believe will appear sooner or later in the Bhendy. Bazar Road, where all Bombay is wont to gather, it seems, as the heat of day gives place te the cooler atmosphere of:coming night. | comicbooks.com